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Making Strut tower bar

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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 09:39 PM
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Smile Making Strut tower bar

I made it a while back, but im finishing it tonight. I made it out of metal pipe and some wood braces. Im not the best welder so i dont know how its gonna turn out. I will post pics.
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 09:40 PM
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I also made a rear one. It was very simple. Just one bar going across. ill get pics of that too
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 09:44 PM
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wood? i gotta see this
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 09:51 PM
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NO! not wood. LOL LOL haha. I guess it sounded like that. Im made it with those steel L-brackets used for framing or whatever. (im not a carpenter)
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Old Jun 11, 2004 | 01:47 AM
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I made my own strut braces, front and rear. 1 piece round tubing. I even made firewall to strut tower braces too. Get whatever tubing you want to use, measure, cut to fit, start at one end and use a 4-6 lb. sledge hammer and pound flat, about 2-3 inches from the end, then the other end. grind off the sharp corners smooth. then drill one hole per side,, or two. it's ghetto, and it's cheap. but mine, all of them work very good.
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Old Jun 11, 2004 | 12:30 PM
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Yeah, its not too hard. the hardest part for me was making it look good cuz im not that good at welding.

My digital camera broke
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